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Please pray for Dr. Stephen Yulish

drywind — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 06:43:26 +0000

Please pray for our dear brother and friend Dr. Stephen Yulish.
He’s been quite sick, and he needs prayer.

http://lamarzulli.wordpress.com/2011/11/18/prayer-need-for-dr-stephen-yulish/

Update: 11/25/11 – Stephen is improving due to prayers and good medical care. Please continue to pray for him.

The Cross and Hyperspace

drywind — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:00:30 +0000

One of the more persistent myths is the “non-physical” nature of spirituality. The average person thinks of spiritual things, if they believe in them at all, as “ghostly” or vaporous and somehow unscientific. Yet modern physics is rapidly moving to understand that there are many dimensions beyond the ones we perceive. (Refer to this article)

The Bible has made it clear that there are states of being beyond our physical reality, and these realities are tangible- indeed more tangible that our own existence that is subject to the decay and ephemerality of time. (Refer to http://khouse.org/articles/1998/62/)

All of this is important when we approach the resurrection of Yeshua (Jesus), the son of God; he bodily rose again with a new type of body that was physically here in our dimension as human and yet could also transcend the all the space-time barriers of our physical world.

The account of Luke, who was a learned Greek physician, notes that Yeshua demonstrated His new ultra-dimensional reality by performing ordinary physical acts like eating in conjunction with with trans-dimensional acts like appearing and disappearing instantly.

And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them. And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight. (Luke 24:30-31)

Yeshua specifically challenges their artificial understanding of the spiritual vs. physical world in his appearances to people following his resurrection from the dead. He was physical and yet transcended our limitations:

And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have. (Luke 36-39)

Paul, who was one of the most schooled men of his day, as a free born Roman citizen studied under Gamaliel in Tarsus, the capital of the province Cilicia. He directly addresses this new type of existence Yeshua enabled for those who accept him:

It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body. (I Corinthians 15:44)

In the original Greek, the word body is “Soma” which strongly suggests a whole, tangible state, most definitely not a ghostly existence. This existence that Yeshua, being the Christ, ushered in with his suffering and death is a radical idea, challenging the dominate philosophies from the Gnostics to the Platonists; where intangible spiritual vs. the tangible physical was the undercurrent of the teaching.

Through his death there is made possible a new existence; one that is more real than our own transient reality, because it lasts forever, transcending the dimension of time and therefore death:

Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. (I Corinthians 15:50-54)

No amount of meditation and enlightenment can achieve this; one only needs to ask for this free gift from God.

A Scientific Fiction: A Distorted View of the UFO Phenomena

drywind — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 08:13:34 +0000

The most pervasive propaganda has always been fiction that is packaged as truth. However, before people accuse me of hating Science Fiction, let me make it clear that I own not only enjoy Science Fiction, but I’ve written Science Fiction and studied it as a literary form at the post graduate level for several years.

The power behind the literary genre of Science Fiction is its ability to fire our imaginations. Science Fiction is far more than the simple entertainment form. Science Fiction is a modern mythology; it is our culture’s way of explaining the unknown. It is accepted as a form of speculative truth because it has done such a good job in one limited area, predicting technology. For instance, long before there were nuclear submarines, Jules Verne wrote about such machines.

When it comes to unknown phenomena such as ufos and other unexplainable paranormal events, Science Fiction is the template through which most people see these events. For example, when a person encounters a nonhuman entity nowadays they more often immediately jump to the conclusion that the creature comes from outer space. Likewise, when modern aircraft and pilots encounter aerial objects that defy physics, most assume a view that these are spacecraft from another planet.

The danger in using Science Fiction as a mythos to form your opinion about the unknown is that it is for the most part very limiting. Ironically, most people would see Science Fiction as exploring possibilities. In practical reality, most people know Science Fiction via popular TV shows and movies which always gravitate towards conventional spacecraft and a universe filled with intelligent biological aliens. With the growth of the UFO phenomena then, popular culture has “taught” people that these objects and creatures “must” be aliens flying around in spacecraft.

Science Fiction developed in the 1800s about the same time people began interpreting strange objects seen in the sky as craft. However, people have been seeing strange things in the sky prior to science fiction. In times past, prior to the so-called “enlightenment” of the industrial age and its mass media, most people understood the unknown via religious traditions developed over thousands of years.

When I mention that UFOs may have far more connection to the historical understanding of fallen Angels and the study of demonology than they do spacecraft, some often laugh and dismiss that as an arcane pre-industrial view. However, they refuse to see how their imagination and their acceptance of science fiction from popular media is causing them to jump to enormous conclusions about these unknown craft and creatures.

Refer to this quote from my article “The Various Sides of ET Deception:”

It is important to remember that some of the most respected, secular UFO researchers note these beings and their craft are “paraphysical” and “hyperdimensional.” . . . These beings are spiritual and yet are capable of entering our reality in a physical way. In a modern understanding, they can transcend into and beyond our reality into other dimensions that are unknown to us. It is entirely possible they can assume a physical appearance with the same ease you and I put on a costume. Refer to J. Allen Hyneck (Edge of Reality, 1975, 12-13); Jacques Vallee (Dimensions, 1988, 143-144); John Mack (Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens, 1994, 404-405)

Science Fiction generally portrays extraterrestrials in two primary ways: as benevolent saviors or as hostile aliens. These simplistic viewpoints ignore one major fact: if these beings exist and are as powerful as they seem, they are perfectly capable of understanding popular fiction and using it to their own ends. It is no accident that legitimate UFO sightings by reliable witnesses contain shapes of aerial objects that are pulled right from the pages of our own popular Science Fiction; these beings are using our own fiction as a method of representing themselves.

As these beings manifest more and more in our world, avoid the temptation to simplistically classify them via a popular culture we’ve been spoon fed so carefully via mass media. Consider that very informed ancient cultures understood far more about this phenomena than we do in our mass media-driven haze.

Atlantis- Atlanticus Awdawmonus

drywind — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:29:27 +0000

David Dansker of TheNewsBeats has published a very interesting article on a Biblical perspective of ultra-ancient civilizations. In his article David offers what is called “The Gap” idea, which based on the text of Genesis may suggest a vast earthly civilization preceding the creation of humankind. Hold on for some interesting viewpoints:

Atlantis- Atlanticus Awdawmonus by David Dansker >>

Look Upon the Serpent? And be Supernaturally Healed?

drywind — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:03:37 +0000

Don’t fear – this is not some article about fringe people in the backwater handling snakes as part of some sort of pseudo-Christian ceremony :). However, in the Bible there is a mysterious event involving serpents that occurred while the ancient Jewish people were wandering in the desert. If we understand the meaning of the event, it provides a great revelation of what supernatural healing really means.

The event begins in Numbers 21 with the people complaining and turning away from God. A highly unusual rash of venomous snakes came into the camp, and many people died. These snakes were so poisonous that anyone who was bitten died; there were no exceptions. The people came to Moses, and Moses went to God for a solution. God’s unusual solution was:

The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.

So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, he lived. - Numbers 21:8-9

Now the images of the serpent in the Bible was hardly a good one. The multidimensional being who is the essence of evil took the form of a serpent when seducing humans into making The Fall – when sin entered the universe and all creation fell under entropy and death. The additional detail that the image was made of brass is even more strange, as brass is associated with sin in the ancient Judaic priesthood. So why would God choose a serpent on a pole made of the metal of judgement and sin to be a symbol of healing and redemption?

This question is answered by Christ himself:

And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up: That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. – John 3:14, 15

What does Christ mean? Why would Christ compare himself with the serpent; a symbol of evil in Judeo understanding? The fact is, when Christ died on the cross, he took upon himself every sin, hurt, pain that had ever and will ever torment the human race; past, present, and future. Christ literally became every hurt and sin (2 Corinthians 5:21) – the pain of every human who has and will ever live was in Christ. This explains why when Christ was anticipating his death he sweated blood. Christ’s death was not ordinary; it was the most massive supernatural event ever- God himself became sin. But it did not end with death. Christ came back to life and conquered this sin so we all could share in this eternal life and healing. Hundreds of years before Christ came the prophet Isaiah foretold this healing power in his death and life.

Isaiah 53:5 But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed.

So when Moses was told to have the people look upon the brass serpent he was foreshadowing the healing and redemption that only comes through the death of sin itself, which came upon God the Son. Through this sacrifice we look not on a symbol, but a very real hope of eternal life – the cross and the empty tomb of Christ.